16 SEO Tips – My Onpage SEO Checklist
Here’s a list of onpage SEO factors I look at when analyzing a website. Enjoy!
NOTE: Not in order of importance. They all need to be done, and done right.
- Proper Meta Data – Relevant, Organized Title, Description, KW’s, & Robots
- H1 Heading – relevance & h2-h5 support
- In-Content Keyword Placement – Density, Prominence, 1st Sentence
- Onpage Keyword Placement – 1st Part of Body, ID’s, Last 10 Words, Site-wide – Refer to above.
- Image Optimization – Img Folder, Img Name, Alt Attribute
- URL Structuring/ Page Names – Site Structure, URL Names, Folder Locations
- Internal Linking & Navigation – nofollow, javascript, navigation, Anchor text, title Attribute, sitewide
- Google Webmaster Tools Suggestions – Verify, HTML Suggestions, Crawl Errors, Broken Links
- 301 Redirecting & Canonicalization – Server Type, www/non-www, Old Pages
- 404 Header Check Optimization
- Code to Text Ratio Excessive Coding
- HTML Validation & CSS Optimization
- Add Blog/RSS Feed
- HTML Site-mapping – Sitemap Links, Structure, Pages
- XML Site-mapping & Submissions – XML Blog Feed, Sitemaps, Submit to Google & Yahoo!
- Robots.txt – Allow/Disallow, Reference XML
Check off each of these as you examine a site to determine what needs to be fixed.
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I'll bookmark your page for this great checklist. Sure be looking at this from time to time.
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This is very useful for a quick SEO checklist, thanks James
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The most important tips for search engine optimization is to get inbound links. This is for the reason that the more inbound links will have from other popular site to the website, the easier it will become for to get better ranking from search engines. For this reason, we must strive to get as many of these as possible. It gives credibility to your site and helps you to improve your ranking on the search engines.Social bookmarking is another very important aspect of SEO. It makes for visitors to bookmark the pages in an easier way.
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What do you meen by 11.Code to Text Ratio Excessive Coding?
Back in the day, having too much html, scripts, coding, extra tables, etc compared to what users could see wasn't good for SEO. But nowadays, even the bests sites have too much scripting to get dock for it. Don't think its as big of a factor as it used to be. But could be making a come back.
And there you have it – a great check list for SEO excellence. Thanks for sharing.
LIst likes these are very useful to double check at the end of a web design project! good idea
Thanks for sharing helpful and great on page seo tips and also check browser compatibility and speed test.
Thanks to share SEO tips.
Nice tips. Also it would be great if you write more detail on each tip and add links to those detailed posts. So this would be some kind of summary.
Thanks for giving nice information about onpage optimization.
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